<div class="doc-item" id="doc-1361"><h2 class="doc-item-name">str<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">str</span>  )</li><li>(<span class="var-name">str</span>  x)</li><li>(<span class="var-name">str</span> x &amp; ys)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>With no args, returns the empty string. With one arg x, returns
  x.toString().  (str nil) returns the empty string. With more than
  one arg, returns the concatenation of the str values of the args.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:322
(defn str
  ([] &quot;&quot;)
  ([#^Object x]
   (if (nil? x) &quot;&quot; (. x (toString))))
  ([x &amp; ys]
     ((fn [#^StringBuilder sb more]
          (if more
            (recur (. sb  (append (str (first more)))) (next more))
            (str sb)))
      (new StringBuilder #^String (str x)) ys)))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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